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Parliamentary Staff Pick Leaves From Trees

Really pleased our tax £££'s are being used wisely.

Another one of those 'I don't believe it' stories.....?

"As a woman up a ladder removes individual leaves from trees, many people question if Government is right to "manage" autumn.

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Gardeners at the Palace of Westminster are being employed to pick leaves from the lime trees outside the building to stop them falling off and making the place look untidy.

A female member of staff was seen up a ladder in New Palace Yard on Friday removing individual leaves from the trees.

A Parliament spokesman said: "The leaves are removed each winter as a more time-efficient alternative to raking fallen leaves.

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  • "more time efficient than raking leaves" - i'll try sell that line to my customers next week!!!!!

  • Will they be sticking them back on in spring?!

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    Literally " What the hell" ?? Is that a wind up?

  • Ridiculous!

  • The gardener Annabell Honeybun was "mini pollarding" the lime trees cutting each branch down to two buds.
    Sounds reasonable to me
  • Surely, like everyother council in britain they would owna billygoat or similar - leeds operates a converted Bin wagon that has an extension pipe out the back, those guys clear meters a min of ground.

    That courtyard couldnt take more than 45-1h to vac every leaf up....

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    I could maybe understand that but, the official responses do not indicate that was the reason ?

    Chris R Selwyn-Smith said:
    The gardener Annabell Honeybun was "mini pollarding" the lime trees cutting each branch down to two buds.
    Sounds reasonable to me
  • do you really think a press or media bod would have the faintest idea what pollarding is, let alone what their gardeners are doing?

    The chances are they dont know much if anything at all about what was ahppening and just paniced and ran with what at a glace looks like leaf collecting.

  • This seems a case of selective journalism. In my paper it clearly states it was 'mini pollarding' back to two buds, which seems an entirely sensible thing to be done just before leaf fall.

    Gary RK said:
    I could maybe understand that but, the official responses do not indicate that was the reason ?

    Chris R Selwyn-Smith said:
    The gardener Annabell Honeybun was "mini pollarding" the lime trees cutting each branch down to two buds.
    Sounds reasonable to me
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    Maybe selective journalism? T

    he Guardian reports:

    "The parliamentary authorities have defended their decision to ask a gardener to remove each leaf manually from trees outside the House of Commons to save time spent raking them up.

    The incident led to accusations on Twitter that autumn had been cancelled by Westminster, when a female worker on a step ladder was spotted taking down yellow leaves, one by one, from a circle of lime trees.

    Although typical winter temperatures have not yet arrived in London, the gardener stripped bare the trees that border the square below Big Ben, instead of allowing them to fall naturally.

    Asked about the decision, a Commons spokesman said: “If we waited for the leaves to fall off it would waste a lot of time raking them up. It is more time efficient.”

    In a further comment, he added: “The House of Commons employs a gardening service which covers maintenance of more than 145 trees on the parliamentary estate as well as all grassed areas, planted areas, indoor plants, containers and window boxes."

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